January 5, 2012

Lamont Pride, the 27-year-old man who allegedly shot NYPD officer Peter Figoski in the face, killing him, when Figoski attempted to stop a home invasion in Cypress Hills last month, has told the court he’s sorry for what he did, and that he didn’t mean for it to happen. Pride had initially claimed he’d gone to the house to buy weed when robbers kicked the door in; he said he attempted to wrestle a gun from one of them, and it went off. Later he admitted he’d planned the robbery with co-defendant Nelson Morales, but he continues to claim the shooting was an accident.